LiveJournal Buyout Rumor

Aaron B. Russell writes "Om Malik reports that Six Apart are looking to buy blogging community LiveJournal.com. Rumour? I hope so. I seriously hope so. Neither Six Apart nor Danga Interactive (the company behind LiveJournal) have commented on the situation yet. What impact will this have for the users and volunteers over at LiveJournal? Chris Schmidt, a volunteer at LiveJournal, hypothesizes here(1) and here(2) ." Sources close to LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick say this is just a rumor, and that LJ is not being sold. Update: 01/06 by J : Our sources were way wrong.

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Good Riddance

[barik]

All I can say is good riddance. I hope that LiveJournal gets bought, sold, transformed, hacked to death, and turned into something useful. Right now. LiveJournal is nothing more than a forum for immature emotional wankery, coupled with exhibitionist users who think that they should post every mundane detail of their life in order to validate their existence. Think I'm kidding? Just pick any random LiveJournal user, and then click on their friends. Here's one:

"I realize that pork doesn't smell great when slow cooked unless it has stuff all over it. But why does the house reek of...gas or something? It's foul, and I just had to open the porch door with the fear that I'd keel over from some sort of poisoning."

Wow, way to enlighten to us there, kid.

But what's really annoying about all this is that it seems to be, largely, a LiveJournal phenomena. Blogger actually has some intelligent blogs hosted on it. Bloggers who host their own domains, by far, have something more substantial to contribute to the community. So what makes LiveJournal the pile of crap that it is?